Hathern

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Hathern
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St Peter & St Paul Church, Hathern
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Hathern
Location within Leicestershire
Population1,866 (2011)
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Loughborough
Postcode district LE12
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52°47′44″N1°15′23″W / 52.7956°N 1.2563°W / 52.7956; -1.2563 Coordinates: 52°47′44″N1°15′23″W / 52.7956°N 1.2563°W / 52.7956; -1.2563

Hathern is a village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, England. The village itself is located in the north of the district, and is just north of Loughborough. It is served by the A6. The parish has a population of about 1,800. Nearby places are Dishley, Long Whatton, and Zouch, over the border in Nottinghamshire. Residents of the village have, in recent years, campaigned to prevent the green "wedge" separating Loughborough, Shepshed and Hathern from being built on. [1] The village is home to the Swift Sock Factory, one of only a small number of independent sock manufacturers left in the UK.

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Notable residents

Jude Morris Moved into goodacre house in 2018 Has amazing YouTube channel with 300 subscribers, popular influencer on tik tok.

John Heathcoat (1783–1861), inventor and industrialist, operated a textile mill in Hathern (where, in 1808–9, he invented the bobbin net machine, for weaving a lace-like hexagonal net), before moving his business first to Loughborough, and later to Tiverton, Devon.

callum whitworth

influential tik tok star with over 1.5million followers. born in hathern he perused his dream of being a social media star. Collberations with simple savvile and Astrid his most famous video was with raspberry united in the gardens league final.

History

A settlement probably existed here in the Saxon period but the first written record was in the Domesday Book where it was called Avederne, Old English for hawthorne. [2] Prominent in the centre of the village is Hathern cross, dating from the 14th century. Like most villages in this part of the country, farming and framework knitting were major sources of employment. The parish church dates mainly from the 14th century although a place of worship probably existed on the site in earlier times. An ancient font, one of the oldest in the county is regularly used for baptisms. [3]

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References

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